Glenn County cases are on a rise but two businesses are now taking safety precautions

The health department narrowed some of those cases down two businesses - Sierra Nevada Cheese and Olson Meat Packing.

New at 6 - as we just learned - glenn county is seeing a double digit jump in coronavirus cases since friday.

The health department narrowed some of those cases down two business - sierra nevada cheese and olson meat packing.

Action news now reporter mackenzie drigo found out how these businesses are trying to make things safer now.

I spoke to the owner of olson meat he told me that the people that tested positive for the coronavirus and the people that were near them- are all being quarantined.

James olson- owner of olson meat sot "we're really short on people and we're almost shut down because we don't have enough people."

Olson meats owner james olsen says once he learned an employee tested positive for the coronavirus he immediately had everyone else tested.

Make sure we don't see any bloody animal or chunks of flesh please.

Video of the ring olson gave me over this sot "this outbreak has happened more on the kill- floor side, everybody on the kill floor has a good distance between them already, it's hard because the kill floor has 21 people and i think they have in the neighborhood around 10 or 11 people that are not here, i don't know which ones have or waiting for results but we don't want them here, " olson says they are working with tehama, glenn, and butte county health officials.

"cleanliness is really important so a lot of times people have thoughts of a slaughter house as a dirty facility.

When they come in the animals are what they are but the process gets cleaner and cleaner as it goes," (cover with video, any nats you can use here) "they have aprons that people wear, they have the gloves, they face mask, and hard hats, were just being more diligent at wearing our face mask at all times," sierra nevada cheese owner ben gregerson tells action news now he closed their store to the public, is checking employees temperatures 2 to 3 times a day, giving face shields*an* masks and staggering break times.

Look live tag the owners wants to stress that they are keeping their employees 6 feet apart from each other and they are following all the c-d-c guidelines, reporting in glenn county mackenzie drigo action news now coverage you can count on.

Olson says a representative of the glenn positive for the coronavirus and the people that were near them- are all being quarantined.

James olson- owner of olson meat sot "we're really short on people and we're almost shut down because we don't have enough people."

Olson meats owner james olsen says once he learned an employee tested positive for the coronavirus he immediately had everyone else tested.

Make sure we don't see any bloody animal or chunks of flesh please.

Video of the ring olson gave me over this sot "this outbreak has happened more on the kill- floor side, everybody on the kill floor has a good distance between them already, it's hard because the kill floor has 21 people and i think they have in the neighborhood around 10 or 11 people that are not here, i don't know which ssarwhv ah* th kee employ other an all th gu repogn gl mac action cov can olson says a representative of the glenn county health department came to meet with their employees today to help calm nerves and go over protocols.